I’ve been really unhappy with my weight for years now. I’m 17, 5’5 and 125lb, which i realize is a healthy weight but I just hate the way it’s distributed on my frame. Its just gotten so tiring to not have any confidence and I’d wanna get down to 110 or 115. Besides weight loss I also just want to become stronger, I play tennis (of course not right now) so it’d be nice if I don’t become a totally weak noodle at a lower weight.
Anyway what I’ve been doing for the past two months is tracking my calories and past two weeks I’ve also been working out everyday (besides a rest day). As for calories I use myfitnesspal. I wake up at like noon so I don’t have breakfast (which I’m guessing is bad?) but my first meal is usually something like scambled eggs with tomatoes, Cheerios with almond milk, or 2 or 3 crepes or pancakes that my family makes. Then before I workout my go to snack is a greek yogurt. Dinner is always a protein like steak, salmon, or chicken, besides steak these are pretty much always baked or steamed, I try to eat as little fried foods or stuff w oil as I can. Then I have a salad or some sautéed veggies. If I’m still hungry i have whatever fruit there is, like an apple or orange. I drink a couple cups of water a day and usually around a cup of almond milk. The thing is I don’t weigh out my food, I sort of just guesstimate based on pics of serving sizes I look up online which I realize is kinda dumb but I don’t have a scale. According to myfitnesspal my calories are around 800, and everything I read says that’s not enough, but I’m scared if I eat anymore than what I do now I’ll be overeating. Maybe I’m just underestimating my calories but certain things like eggs, milk, yogurt have the calories on them so those are accurate, so if anything I j don’t know what 4 oz of salmon or chicken is, or maybe there’s something else im not taking into account? I don’t want to be overeating but at the same time I don’t want to ruin my metabolism by undereating. Does ~800 sound right for what I’ve been eating? Also, My Bmr is about 1400-1500, what do I do with that number?? And what’s the difference between that and TDEE? The online calculators give such a large range between this based on exercise level too. I know there’s a lot of online resources but it’d be really helpful if someone could just explain what this all means for my situation and how much I should actually be eating. I know about CICO, but I’m not sure how many calories I should actually be taking in...
As for working out, I’ve been doing around 30 min to and hour everyday. I do cardio/HIIT I find on YouTube, the only weights I have r 3 pounds and I’ve only used them once so pretty much all of my workouts have been body weight. I burn an average of about ~300 to 500 cal everyday from working out. I wanna try to start walking around the house more because I just don’t know if working out for an hour is enough if I’m sedentary the other 12 hours. I follow the video workouts, modifying them for low impact if I need to, and the moves r generally a lot of squats (so many squat jumps...) planks, jumping jacks, ab moves like mountain climbers, lunges, etc. Also this week I started following premade workout plans, I’m comparing Chloe Tings 8 week summer shred (starting on week 4 tho bc the rest of the weeks have the same workouts just less often) and 1workoutaday’s 2 month bikini something. I’m not really focusing on the whole 2 month thing, I just wanted some sort of frame of reference for how to structure my workouts so I’m not doing the same cardio thing everyday. Theirs go from full body days to abs ,arm, and leg days etc. Is this enough activity for myself? Is there anything else I should add to my workouts? Also should I be feeling sore after every workout to know it’s effective?
If you read all of this thank you so much. I’ve struggled with my weight and body image for a long time, and I want to change my body the healthy way. I think what I’m most confused ab is my calorie intake. If I keep doing what I’m doing, will I lose weight?
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